Location: Ghana
Assessing monitoring and evaluation systems across multiple Global Fund Principal Recipients
The Republic of Ghana has received two large-scale HIV-AIDS grants from the Global Fund: one emphasizing care and treatment and the other focusing on prevention services. The prevention grant involves the coordinated efforts of four Principal Recipients (PRs), including the Ghana AIDS Commission, which is formally designated to lead the HIV-AIDS response in Ghana.
Once the prevention grant was approved, the Global Fund required each PR to conduct a formal assessment of its monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, and to use the results of that assessment in preparing an M&E systems strengthening plan. The Ghana AIDS Commission solicited proposals for assistance in this process and selected IDEAS because of its extensive Global Fund experience in assessing and strengthening the M&E systems of national disease programs.
IDEAS fielded two workshop facilitators who had significant experience with the Global Fund’s M&E Systems Strengthening Tool (MESST). This team worked with the Ghana AIDS Commission and two other PRs (Adventist Development and Relief Agency and Planned Parenthood of Ghana) to design and implement a two-day workshop for staff from more than 25 implementing organizations. The workshop was designed to foster dialogue and sharing of experiences as well as to contribute to stronger M&E systems.
In addition, the team worked with management and M&E staff from each of the PRs to develop and submit formal M&E system-strengthening plans. Senior managers from all the organizations expressed their satisfaction with the collaborative relationships created through this process, as well as with the quality of the final products.
